Daily publication of COVID-19 admissions and bed occupancy data
This file contains Covid data on measures of hospital admissions and the number of beds occupied by Covid patients and the number of MV beds (beds capable of supporting mechanical ventilation) occupied by Covid patients.

Focus on flexible: the future of the NHS workforce – NHS Confed 
Staff wellbeing and flexible working are part of the People Plan. COVID-19 has helped to accelerate conversations with real experiences to draw on.

Patients and healthcare professionals’ voice on preventable readmissions – BMJ Open Quality
Currently, about 10% of patients required unplanned readmissions within 30 days after discharge. This proportion has not changed substantially over the past several years despite intense efforts to improve the discharge process.

£64 million funding to back UK-wide plan to strengthen clinical research delivery – Department of Health and Social Care 
The implementation plan published today (23 June 2021) sets out the first year of activities towards delivering the vision for The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery.

New report captures NHS Wales learnings and innovation in response to pandemic – NHS Confed 
Report captures learnings and innovative practice emerging from across NHS Wales in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Healthy workplace toolkit – Royal College of Nursing (RCN) 
This toolkit provides organisations with a systematic framework to use to improve working environments. The RCN recognises that there are a number of frameworks in place to improve working environments and the health and wellbeing of the workforce, however this framework has been developed with nursing staff with the aim of improving their working environment and conditions and the subsequent impact this will have on their health and wellbeing.

BMJ Editorial: Persistent pulmonary disease after acute covid-19, BMJ 
Editorial summarises studies to date which show that persisting respiratory complications do occur and that severity of infection and prior health status are main determinants of radiological and functional impairment longer term.

NHS Academy of Fabulous Stuff – A repository of inspirational ideas

Recent additions include:

• Collaborative new ways of digitally supporting safer, more efficient health and care across the care sector
• Creating belonging- flags on student name badges
• Acute Rehab in the time of a Pandemic
• Building Better Together
• New walking test helps patients recover better and faster
• Asthma #RightInhalerImage Campaign